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Relational Presence
for Coaches™

Relational Presence
for Coaches™

Build a Richer Connection with Clients that
Elicits Coaching Success for Them and You

You want to evoke transformation in your clients, and you’ve been trained to do just that. In fact, your clients’ successes are testimony to how well you’re doing your job.

But perhaps you notice times during coaching sessions when:

  • Your mind gets busy and your attention drifts away from your client

  • You fall into a DOING mindset rather than focusing on BEING with your client

  • Something pulls you off balance and you lose your grounding

In those moments, it can be tempting to rely on your coaching skills and tools as the way to refocus and bring yourself back into relationship with your client.

Only it's not skills and tools that create the connection between you and your client. 

It's your presence.

It's your ability to be fully present with another person.

This ability is the key to a successful coaching relationship, and thus to inspiring the change you were hired to evoke.

An Expanded Capacity for Presence =
Inspired Coaching by You and More Abundant Results for Clients

Presence is the key . . . but how do you get more of it?

We believe that practicing Relational Presence is the way to keep your attention on the here-and-now in coaching sessions.

Relational Presence is the ability to be fully present with another, without agenda or distraction. 

As a coach, cultivating your ability to truly be in the moment with your client is essential.

Because the more in tune you are with your client, the more effective you can be.

The Relational Presence for Coaches™ program will lead you through a process to tap into and expand your capacity for being present in relationship with your client. 

Our innovative methodology will:

  • Raise your level of authenticity, so that you can feel more comfortable no matter what comes up in a coaching session

  • Build your muscle for staying open, confident, and flexible with clients

  • Lead you to heightened rapport and more trust with clients

Presence is the key . . . but how do you get more of it?

We believe that practicing Relational Presence is the way to keep your attention on the here-and-now in coaching sessions.

Relational Presence is the ability to be fully present with another, without agenda or distraction. 

As a coach, cultivating your ability to truly be in the moment with your client is essential.

Because the more in tune you are with your client, the more effective you can be.

The Relational Presence for Coaches™ program will lead you through a process to tap into and expand your capacity for being present in relationship with your client. 

Our innovative methodology will:

  • Raise your level of authenticity, so that you can feel more comfortable no matter what comes up in a coaching session

  • Build your muscle for staying open, confident, and flexible with clients

  • Lead you to heightened rapport and more trust with clients

You will learn how to:

Connect naturally with your client

Let silence be comfortable

Stay grounded in the moment

Listen at a deeper level

Hang out in the not knowing with ease

Be with the full range of emotions of your client

Create from connection

Go with the flow and shift gears confidently

Handle any disconnect

Trust yourself to say what your intuition is telling you

Hold a safer space for your client

Manage your inner state

You will learn how to:

  • Connect naturally with your client

  • Let silence be comfortable

  • Stay grounded in the moment

  • Listen at a deeper level

  • Hang out in the not knowing with ease

  • Be with the full range of emotions of your client

  • Create from connection

  • Go with the flow and shift gears confidently

  • Handle any disconnect

  • Trust yourself to say what your intuition is telling you

  • Hold a safer space for your client

  • Manage your inner state

Relational Presence for Coaches™ Program Features

Zoom platform. Webcam required.

CCEs: 12

Tuition: US$845

This six-session online program is held at intervals throughout the year. Limited to 10 participants, the program is a small-group immersion in the use of Relational Presence in coaching sessions. 

Each 90-minute class focuses on Relational Presence in the context of the International Coaching Federation's updated Core Competencies. 

The program is accredited by the ICF. To earn CCEs, coaches must attend all six sessions and complete short fieldwork assignments with a buddy. 

Mentoring by the founders, Pam Noda and Tina Mertel, is included, with an optional path of continued mentoring after the program ends.

Coaches will leave the program equipped with:

  • An elevated ability to see clients for who they are 

  • The core elements of Relational Presence (also known as Speaking Circles®) training

  • Enhanced skill in applying each of the eight ICF Core Competencies

The program offers growth for coaches at any level of experience.

Mastering Relational Presence means that your coaching can become an even more powerful and transformative medium in service of your clients.

The program is also offered in Japanese. 

Relational Presence for Coaches™ Program Features

Zoom platform. Webcam required.

CCEs: 12

Tuition: US$845

This six-session online program is held at intervals throughout the year. Limited to 10 participants, the program is a small-group immersion in the use of Relational Presence in coaching sessions. 

Each two-hour class focuses on Relational Presence in the context of the International Coaching Federation's updated Core Competencies. 

The program is accredited by the ICF. To earn CCEs, coaches must attend all six sessions and complete short fieldwork assignments with a buddy. 

Mentoring by the founders, Pam Noda and Tina Mertel, is included, with an optional path of continued mentoring after the program ends.

Coaches will leave the program equipped with:

  • An elevated ability to see clients for who they are 

  • The core elements of Relational Presence (also known as Speaking Circles®) training

  • Enhanced skill in applying each of the eight ICF Core Competencies

The program offers growth for coaches at any level of experience.

Mastering Relational Presence means that your coaching can become an even more powerful and transformative medium in service of your clients.

The program is also offered in Japanese. 

The 2025 Course Starts on October 15.

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The link will open at Eventbrite, where you can view all course dates and sign up to secure your place in the course.

Praise from Coaches

Holding the space for clients is what this course is about. Pam and Tina were great role models, with a wealth of warmth and encouragement. I enjoyed every minute of it. I’d rate this course a 5/5, time always flew by in a heartbeat!

Iris Kloth, PCC

I recommend this course to coaches who are in training and about to get certified. It was eye opening to me . . . I really got to understand better how much allowing space helps the client to open up and move towards the desired outcome. I learned to trust the process, which helped me gain confidence.

Sabine Schoellhorn

The course enlightened me to the deep subtleties of my responsibility in upholding the Core Competencies.

L.K., MEd, LPC, ACC

The training went beyond my expectations. . . . It taught me a lot about letting the moment happen by breathing through it rather than trying to make it happen.

M.H., ACC

The course provides tools that can be applied immediately. Especially valuable is the "calmness" that can be gained through Relational Presence that supports both client and coach.

V.M., PCC

I am 10/10 satisfied. In this course, you can practice your “being” as coach in a very safe environment. Practicing the skills of Relational Presence was a precious experience.

A.U., PCC 

[The course] will give you an opportunity to dig deeper within your coaching presence and tap into a more profound way to connect, listen, engage, and coach your clients.

R.A., PCC

Praise from Coaches

Holding the space for clients is what this course is about. Pam and Tina were great role models, with a wealth of warmth and encouragement. I enjoyed every minute of it. I’d rate this course a 5/5, time always flew by in a heartbeat!

Iris Kloth, PCC

I recommend this course to coaches who are in training and about to get certified. It was eye opening to me . . . I really got to understand better how much allowing space helps the client to open up and move towards the desired outcome. I learned to trust the process, which helped me gain confidence.

Sabine Schoellhorn

The course enlightened me to the deep subtleties of my responsibility in upholding the Core Competencies.

L.K., MEd, LPC, ACC

The training went beyond my expectations. . . . It taught me a lot about letting the moment happen by breathing through it rather than trying to make it happen.

M.H., ACC

The course made me a wiser coach.

Julie Weste

The course provides tools that can be applied immediately. Especially valuable is the "calmness" that can be gained through Relational Presence that supports both client and coach.

V.M., PCC

I am 10/10 satisfied. In this course, you can practice your “being” as coach in a very safe environment. Practicing the skills of Relational Presence was a precious experience.

A.U., PCC 

[The course] will give you an opportunity to dig deeper within your coaching presence and tap into a more profound way to connect, listen, engage, and coach your clients.

R.A., PCC

Your Relational Presence Guides

Pam Noda, PCC
Tina Mertel, MCC
Pam Noda, PCC
Tina Mertel, MCC
Nearly 90% of coaches we surveyed believe that having presence is extremely important as a coach. We think so too, and we’re dedicated to helping you build your muscle of how to be with clients.

 

We've been teaching Relational Presence for Coaches™ since 2016. Both of us are certified coaches with the International Coaching Federation, and are certified in Relational Presence (also known as Speaking Circles®) training. 

Relational Presence is an integral component of our own coaching sessions. Tina's article "A Way to Be" in Coaching World provides a valuable introduction to Relational Presence and coaching.

Experience has taught us that being in Relational Presence with clients is the ground of coaching wisdom. From there emerges a coach’s sense of what to say when and which skills/tools to apply. From there emerges a client’s inner knowing and call to action. This combination is what yields inspired coaching from the coach and inspired results for the client. 

Curriculum

Week 1
Laying the Foundation: The Coach's Way of Being Matters

Discover your skills in being present and where you can improve.

Week  2
Authenticity in the Coach Begets Authenticity in the Client

Establishing trust, and knowing what trust is. How do you know when you have it?

Week  3
Presence with Your Client

How do you know you have presence? Learn to stay open, confident, and flexible.

Week 4
Listen with All of Your Being

How do you stay focused on your client? Learn to listen for meaning, and how to hold back from your own interpretations of what's being said.

Week  5
Discomfort While Being in Relationship

Learn the differences between direct and indirect communication and when to use them, how to communicate with the greatest impact, and notice when you shy away from what's being said.

Week  6
Closing: Creating Awareness from Beginning to End

Learn how Relational Presence affects all of the coaching competencies and create a plan for success with every coaching encounter.

The 2025 Course Starts on October 15.

Zoom platform. Webcam required.
CCEs: 12
Tuition: US$845

The 2025 Course Starts on October 15.

Zoom platform. Webcam required.
CCEs: 12
Tuition: US$845
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